After the demise of Lehman (an investment bank) and of A.I.G. (an insurance company) brought the entire banking system to the edge of collapse, many policymakers concluded that the labels attached to big financial firms didn't matter much anymore: once they reached a certain size and level of interconnectedness with other firms, they were too big to be allowed to fail.
Figure 10 shows the effects of bankruptcy costs and fire sales in the core-periphery network, given that initially a core bank is shocked.10 The qualitative results for an initial periphery shock are similar; however, the total average number of defaults tends to be higher as an initially shocked core bank may survive the shock due to a high and possibly stabilizing level of interconnectedness.
Most conflict in marriage is at least in part a negotiation around the level of interconnectedness between lovers.
In complex systems, the level of interconnectedness and interdependency lead to emergent properties, behaviors and opportunities that didn't exist before.
In the case of famine, there is absolutely no excuse on a planet that harbors our level of interconnectedness for people to ever starve -- except for greed, separatism, xenophobia and ignorance, all of which we, at varying degrees as members of the world community, are responsible for.
At the same time, the algorithms take into account the general level of interconnectedness it exhibits with other network nodes.
To capture the level of interconnectedness that is not accounted for by node degree, Φ(k) of the empirical network is typically compared with the distribution obtained from a set of random graphs.
The recovery of VRE from bedbugs could result from the relatively unhygienic living conditions encountered in the Downtown Eastside and the high level of interconnectedness between St . Pauls Hospital (where a large pool of patients with VRE colonization/infection reside) and the surrounding community.
We also observed additional crosslinks that suggest a high degree of interconnectedness among SWR1's functional modules.
This high level of local interconnectedness caused this region to be classified as low leverage with respect to the synthetic network.
At the technological level alone, the extent of interconnectedness is immense: "electric power grids are among the most complex networks ever made" [4].
